It’s not that often that the West End welcomes a genuinely new British musical, as opposed to an import or a revival. So it is refreshing to encounter this version of Erich Segal’s Seventies romance, originally a novella though best known as a film starring Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw.

Presented earlier this year at Chichester, Love Story is the first West End show in more than two decades from versatile composer Howard Goodall.

The Union Market, a new venture set in the Grade-II listed building that once housed Fulham Broadway Tube’s ticket hall, aims for what entrepreneur Tony Bromovsky calls the "middle way" in natural food retail. That’s farmers’ market provenance plus supermarket convenience. If this Blairite-sounding formula works, he will roll them out in Fulhamesque neighbourhoods all over town.